Scobel, secretaries, and several other members of the committee ;-a most gratifying account was given of the issue of books during the last quarter, amounting to 533 Bibles, 182 New Testaments, 344 Books of Common Prayer, 638 bound books on the list of the society, and 5011 unbound books and tracts. These issues were made chiefly on the application of the poor, through the parochial clergy and other members of the committee, for Bibles, &c., towards which the poor, or the members for them, paid on a very reduced scale of price; but they comprehended also many gratuitous grants of books to the National and Orphan Schools of Brighton and its neighbourhood; and of 36 Bibles, 24 Books of Common Prayer, 66 bound books, and 52 tracts, to the Lewes House of Correction, on the application of the chaplain. It is to be hoped that the unions of parishes formed under the new poor law will set apart a portion of their funds to obtain from this cheap source a sufficient supply of Bibles, &c. for their respective poorhouses; and that the wealthier inhabitants of the district and visitors of Brighton will, by their subscriptions and donations, enable the committee to proceed with increasing liberality in diffusing throughout the deanery the knowledge of

Divine truth.

this life in the past year, 1835.-Salisbury Herald.

On New Year's day, the children of the Codford St. Mary Church Sunday-school were regaled in the school-room with a dinner of roast beef and plum-pudding, with a due proportion of cider; after which an appropriate address was delivered to them by the rector of the parish, and suitable rewards were distributed, when they were dismissed to their respec tive homes, well pleased with their entertainment.-Ibid.

Trowbridge church was opened for the first time on Sunday the 13th, in addition to the usual morning and afternoon services, for a third service, in the evening, when there was an unusually full congreWe have no doubt that the new gation. church about to be erected in that town will be found to be of the greatest benefit in such a crowded population; and we hope that the liberal friends of the establishment will come forward readily with their subcriptions in aid of so good and necessary a work, the funds for completing which are still very deficient.-Ibid.

WORCESTERSHIRE.

The remains of the Rev. Thomas Bed

ford, the rector of St. Helen's, Worcester,

whose sudden death was announced in our last, were on Friday, January 8th, interred in the family vault within the church of that parish. Besides the chief mourners, the corpse was followed by sixteen of the clergy of the city and neighbourhood; and as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased rector, the tradesmen of the parish closed their shops as the funeral passed through the high street. The pulpit and reading desk were also, by the desire of the parishioners, hung with black cloth.-Orford Paper.

The Earl of Coventry forwarded, a few days since, the very liberal donation of 50l. towards the repairs of the Abbey . Church, Pershore. The noble lord had previously sent the sum of 251. towards the restoration of that beautiful specimen of architecture, St. Lawrence, in the borough of Evesham. - Wolverhampton Chronicle.

The Bishops of Worcester and Rochester, the Lord-Lieutenant (Lord Lyttleton), Lord Redesdale, and the Hon. R. H. Clive, M.P., have each contributed 100%. towards the proposed Worcester Church Building Diocesan Society, the meeting for the promotion of which was announced for the following Tuesday.-Birmingham Advertiser.

YORKSHIRE.

The year 1835 has passed without a church-rate being laid for the parish of Wakefield. The churchwardens, as we are informed by one of their body, differ in opinion as to the propriety of continuing the system of compulsory rates.-York

Courant.

At a meeting of the Established Church Society for the Deanery of Doncaster, held at Sheffield, on Tuesday, January 5th, the Rev. T. Sutton, V.P., Vicar of Sheffield, in the chair; the following requisition to the Venerable the Archdeacon of York was agreed upon, and numerously signed: We, the undersigned clergy of the Archdeaconry of York, respectfully request that you will take an opportunity of convening the clergy of your archdeaconry, to consider the propriety of taking measures for effecting the restoration of the powers of provincial and diocesan synods. -Leeds Intelligencer.

On Friday, January 8th, the inhabitants of the parish of Masham, Yorkshire, presented to the Rev. Joseph Burrill, curate of that parish, a bandsome silver tea-tray, with a flattering inscription, as a token of respect and affection for pastoral superintendence during the term of nearly fifty years. The value of the plate is 601.Ibid..

A very beautiful chased silver salver has been presented to the Rev. Charles Augustus Thurlow, the minister of Scalby, in Scarborough, by the residents of that place and neighbourhood, as a "sincere though imperfect expression of the high sense they entertain of his exalted worth as a clergyman of the church of England." -Ibid.

WALES.

Meetings for the relief of the oppressed Irish clergy have been held throughout almost all the dioceses, and have been most fully and respectably attended; the appeals have been most nobly responded to, not only by the clergy, but the laity.

North Wales Chronicle.

SCOTLAND.

ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY.-At the last meeting of the town council, the Lord Provost stated that he had received information, that it is contemplated by the Government authorities in Edinburgh to follow the recommendations of the royal commission, so far as to provide, in the University Bill now in course of preparation there, for the transfer of the whole classes of Marischal College, with the exception of those of law and medicine, to

King's College. This scheme, which, as his lordship truly remarked, would, if carried into effect, prove a great inconvenience to this city, it is the duty of every member of the community most strenuously to oppose. To facilitate this object, his lordship suggested that an interim committee should be formed, for the purpose of pointing out and recommending such early and efficient proceedings as may appear to them best calculated to prevent the prostration and destruction of Marischal College. His lordship's views of the question were unanimously adopted by the council.-Aberdeen Journal.

ST. ANTHONY'S CHAPEL.-The noble keeper of the Crags, the Earl of Haddington, has ordered the repair of the venerable ruins of this ancient edifice.-Edin

burgh Evening Post.

The Rev. J. P. Nichol is a candidate in the University of Glasgow, vacant by for the regius professorship of astronomy the recent death of Dr. Couper.

EPISTLE FROM THE BISHOPS AND CLERGY OF THE SCOTTISH EPISCOPAL CHURCH TO HIS GRACE THE PRIMATE OF IRELAND. To the Archbishops, the Bishops, and Clergy of that portion of the United Church of England and Ireland which is by law established in Ireland. We, the bishops and clergy of the protestant episcopal church in Scotland, during this dark hour of trouble and anguish to our sister church in Ireland, hasten to assure the bishops and pastors of that pure branch of Christ's holy catholic and apos. tolic church of the lively interest which we take in the sufferings of a body of men, on whose heads, through no fault of their own, the waters of affliction have been poured out.

Ourselves being the descendants or successors of men who suffered long under unmerited persecution, we should, indeed, be undeserving of the rest which the Lord in these latter days hath given us, were we capable of beholding, without deep regret, similar persecutions directed against you; or of ceasing to present our supplications by day and by night to the Divine Head of the church, that it will please him, as far as may be consistent with his own glory and the church's good, to shorten the period of your trial. Yet are we not without grounds of consolation, in the midst of our anxiety on your account, when we bebold the meekness and Christian fortitude with which your numerous tribulations are borne. By your patience, by your unwavering adherence to the cause of Gospel truth, by your continued and faith

ful execution of the trusts which our com mon Master bath committed to your keeping, ye have deserved, and ye possess, the respect of the whole Christian world; nor can we doubt that He in whose hand the issues of events repose will, in his own appointed season, reward your zeal and constancy, by delivering you out of all your troubles.

Brethren, it hath pleased Divine Providence so to order our wordly matters, that, except by the prayers which we offer up in your behalf, our ability to serve you is small; but the little which we can do, we will endeavour, with God's help, to do effectually. We have exhorted our several congregations to contribute, as far as their means will allow, towards the alleviation of your immediate distress, and we will transmit the amount of the collections thus made, with as little delay as possible, through your venerated primate.

Assuring you once more of our unfeigned sympathy, and beseeching you to pray for us that we may continue steadfast unto the end, we commend you to the keeping of Him who is abundantly able to save, and who, according to his own most gracious promise, will never permit the gates of hell to prevail against the church which was founded in His own blood, and of which ye are the faithful ministers and stewards.

Given at Stirling, this 29th day of December, in the year of our Lord 1835, and signed, on behalf of all the bishops and clergy of the Scottish Episcopal Church, by me, GEO. GLEIG, LL.D., Bishop of Brechin and Primus.

IRELAND.

A letter received within the last few days by a gentleman of Bath, referring to the distresses under which the clergy are at present so grievously labouring, says"I may state generally, that throughout the dioceses of Cashel, Emly, Waterford, and Lismore, containing upwards of 120 beneficed clergy, scarcely one has received his income for several years past; some may, except for this year, have obtained half, some one-third, some one-fourth, onetenth, one-twentieth. I hear of one, not in these dioceses, who at this day has 2,4001. due to him, out of which he has received just one per cent. for 1834 and 1835! and I know one or two who are quite hopeless of getting even one shilling; and even that portion which we have been able to scrape together has been obtained through toil, trouble, and expense, and illwill, sometimes with violence, bloodshed -even loss of life; things tending not only to make us odious, but miserable and

useless. You have seen samples enough in the newspapers to judge of our general condition. I know a clergyman who recently came into a town with his silver watch, and sold it for 7. to buy food for his family. Much good has been done by the liberal contributions of our English friends; and I am constantly occupied in forwarding remittances to numerous quar

ters.

Were it not that many of us have private friends, upon whom we have leaned for some time past, some scores of us would have been in gaol ere now. My. self, one of the best preferred men in all Ireland, nominally, cannot get enough for my current expenses from my preferment. So great is the intimidation in my part of the county of Tipperary, nearly the worst in Ireland, that not only can I execute no law process to compel payment, but actually I cannot induce any one to offer to receive for me any money which might be brought to him voluntarily. Things must be bad, you will say. An association of laymen is helping us with funds for recovering our dues by course of law, and with much success, I am told, in many parts of the country. But Tipperary hitherto has shewn itself law proof. Still, we must only struggle on, trusting that Providence will still preserve us and our church, as hitherto.-Cambridge Chronicle.

The Dublin Evening Mail says-Ireland is the only nation on the face of God's blessed earth this moment, in which, from the ferocity of the people, and the misconduct of the government, the life of a clergyman is considered as so withdrawn from the protection of the law that it must be excluded from the usual securities. With what horror will the people of England peruse the following authentic document !"To the Editor of the Dublin Evening Mail. "Waterford, Jan. 9, 1836.

"Sir, Having proposed to effect a small insurance on my life, the following was the reply from the office.—I am, sir, your obedient servant, "WM. FRAZER,

"Rector of Killene, Diocese of Waterford.

Asylum Foreign and Domestic Life Office, 70, Cornhill, & 5, Waterloo-place, London. Dec. 31, 1835.

'Rev. W. Frazer, 3001. 'Dear Sir,-This proposal may be completed; the payment will be 11l. 7s. 3d. premium, and 17. stamp. The policy will except death by popular violence or assassination, a clause which the Company now always introduce in policies on the lives of Protestant Clergy in Ireland.-I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

AN IRISH RESOLUTION-THE LATE ANTI-TITHE MEETING IN CLONOULTY.-One of the resolutions entered into deserves to be recorded:-"Resolved, that a legal opinion shall be obtained as to the legality of paying tithes-and that if such legal opinion shall be in favour of the claim, that we shall, notwithstanding, resist the payment unto the death."-Clonmel Herald. To give our readers some idea of the safety which is afforded to the Protestant Irish Clergy in Ireland, and those who deny the facts of the assassinations and numberless brutal outrages perpetrated on

them by the rural forces of agitation, we can shew from a record, that, from 1829 to March 1835 inclusive, five protestant clergymen have been murdered, and forty-two assaulted and put in peril of their lives, besides a vast number of other outrages directed against the servants and property of protestant clergymen, independent of the attempted assassination of the Rev. Mr. Williams of Killoncare, Cavan, who still lingers under wounds from which it is feared he never can recover.-Stockport Advertiser.

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